FRONT COVER -- DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION: LOCATION-SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES OR LIABILITIES OF FOREIGNNESS? -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- EDITORS' BIOGRAPHY -- EDITORS' INTRODUCTION -- OVERVIEW OF VOLUME 24 -- NOTE -- PART I -- INTRODUCTION TO PART I: BOOZ & CO./STRATEGY + BUSINESS EMINENT SCHOLAR IN INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT 2010 -- THE TRANSNATIONAL TRANSITION AND THE MULTINATIONAL FIRM -- INTRODUCTION -- THE TRANSNATIONAL TRANSFORMATION -- SPACE AND GEOGRAPHY -- THE FRAGMENTATION OF POLITICAL AUTHORITY -- STATES AND MARKETS -- IMPLICATIONS FOR THE FIRM -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- CONNECTING THE PLOTS: THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF STEPHEN J. KOBRIN TO INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH -- INTRODUCTION -- POLITICAL RISK AND MNC-HOST GOVERNMENT BARGAINING -- GLOBALIZATION AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE -- SCHOLARLY IMPACT AND PERSONAL REFLECTIONS -- CLOSING COMMENTS -- REFERENCES -- GOVERNANCE IN A TRANSNATIONAL ERA: STEPHEN J. KOBRIN AND THE POST-WESTPHALIAN REALITY -- INTRODUCTION -- THE GLOBAL SPACE -- TRANSNATIONAL GOVERNANCE AND NEW GOVERNANCE REGULATION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- PART II -- INTRODUCTION TO PART II: DYNAMICS OF GLOBALIZATION: LOCATION-SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES OR LIABILITIES OF FOREIGNNESS? -- AN ORGANIZING MODEL OF INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION -- REDUCED-FORM SOLUTION -- THE EMERGENCE OF (PRE- AND POST-) EMERGING MARKETS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- THE HOME-BASED ADVANTAGES AND A HIERARCHY OF LOCATION RESOURCES: FOREIGN AND LOCAL FIRMS DEPENDENCY ON LOCATION RESOURCES -- INTRODUCTION -- RESOURCE DEPENDENCY THEORY AND THE MNE: THE IMPACT OF FOREIGNNESS AND THE MNE INTERNAL NETWORK -- METHODOLOGY -- STATISTICAL ANALYSIS -- DISCUSSION AND EXTENSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES.

THE BENEFITS OF HIERARCHY? - EXPLORING THE EFFECTS OF REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS IN MULTINATIONAL CORPORATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- METHODOLOGY -- FINDINGS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- OVERCOMING LIABILITIES OF FOREIGNNESS BY MODES OF STRUCTURAL COORDINATION: REGIONAL HEADQUARTERS AND THEIR ROLE IN TNCs -- INTRODUCTION -- TERMINOLOGY AND THEORETICAL BACKGROUND -- A STRUCTURAL APPROACH TO SOLVE THE 'GLOCAL' DILEMMA -- SUMMARY AND LIMITATIONS -- REFERENCES -- MOVING ABROAD: FACTORS THAT MOTIVATE FOREIGN LOCATION OF HEADQUARTER ACTIVITIES -- INTRODUCTION -- FIVE PREDICTIONS OF HEADQUARTERS LOCATION CHOICES -- RESEARCH DESIGN, CONTEXT AND DATA -- RESULTS -- ANALYSIS -- DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- SELECTING STATE OR PRIVATE JOINT VENTURE PARTNERS IN EMERGING MARKETS: IMPACT OF LIABILITY OF FOREIGNNESS AND RULE OF LAW -- INTRODUCTION -- CONCEPTUAL BACKGROUND -- LOF AND PARTNER SELECTION -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- LIABILITY OF FOREIGNNESS AND LOCATION-SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES: TIME, SPACE AND RELATIVE ADVANTAGE -- INTRODUCTION -- DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF IB RESEARCH -- FIRM VERSUS CONTEXT AND COMPARATIVE VERSUS INTERACTIVE: A TWO BY TWO MATRIX -- THREE CHALLENGES -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- LIABILITY OF FOREIGNNESS AND INTERNATIONALISATION OF EMERGING MARKET FIRMS -- INTRODUCTION -- WHAT IS LOF -- SOURCES OF LOF -- CONCLUSIONS -- REFERENCES -- EVOLUTION OF FIRM- AND COUNTRY-SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES IN THE PROCESS OF CHINESE FIRM INTERNATIONALIZATION -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES -- CASE STUDIES -- PROPOSITIONS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- FROM STAGES TO PHASES, A THEORY OF SMALL DEVELOPING COUNTRY INTERNATIONALIZATION.

INTRODUCTION: INTERNATIONALIZATION FROM A CHANGING DOMESTIC CONTEXT -- RESEARCH SETTING -- EXISTING THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON INTERNATIONALIZATION -- THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- RESEARCH METHODOLOGY -- RESULTS: COUNTRY CASE STUDY -- RESULTS: ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES -- CROSS CASE ANALYSIS: RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES DURING INTERNATIONALIZATION -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: SHIFTING COUNTRY-SPECIFIC ADVANTAGES AND INTERNATIONALIZATION -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX. MULTIPLE CASE STUDY DATA COLLECTION -- WHAT LIES BENEATH THE INTERNATIONALIZATION OF FIRMS IN A REGIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM? -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORY AND HYPOTHESES -- DATA AND METHODS -- VALIDATION -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX A. SCALE ITEMS -- APPENDIX B. VARIABLES DESCRIPTION - VARIABLE AND LABEL -- APPENDIX C. MEANS, STANDARD DEVIATIONS AND CORRELATIONS BETWEEN VARIABLES -- LOCATION DETERMINANTS OF FDI IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORY DEVELOPMENT -- PREDICTIONS AND HYPOTHESES SUGGESTED IN THE THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL STUDIES -- RESEARCH METHODS -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT THE FOREIGN MARKET LEVEL: TOWARDS A NETWORK PERSPECTIVE -- INTRODUCTION -- METHODOLOGY -- ANALYSES OF THE REVIEW -- CONCLUDING DISCUSSION - TOWARDS A NETWORK PERSPECTIVE ON INTERNATIONAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- APPENDIX. LIST OF THE INCLUDED ARTICLES -- THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE SOURCING AND FIRM PERFORMANCE: A LATENT CLASS ESTIMATION -- INTRODUCTION -- A MODEL OF KNOWLEDGE SOURCING AND FIRM PERFORMANCE -- THE ROLE OF ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY -- ABSORPTIVE CAPACITY AND FIRM PERFORMANCE -- FIRM HETEROGENEITY -- METHODOLOGY -- RESULTS -- DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES.

APPENDIX A. RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE AGGREGATE KNOWLEDGE-SOURCING MEASURES AND FREQUENCY OF SOURCING FROM SELECTED GROUPS -- APPENDIX B. CORRELATION MATRIX OF CONSTRUCTS IN THE MODEL -- A KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM APPROACH TO THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY: CONCEPTUAL GROUNDING AND IMPLICATIONS FOR RESEARCH -- INTRODUCTION: THE KNOWLEDGE CHALLENGES TO INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT RESEARCH -- THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY AS A KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM: CONCEPTUALIZATION -- THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANY AS A KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM: SEARCH AND LEARNING BEHAVIOUR -- CHALLENGES AND IMPLICATIONS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES.